HICL Infrastructure (HICL) Competitors

St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, STJ or HICL?

HICL Infrastructure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than St. James's Place. St. James's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HICL Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
St. James's Place	£16.94B	0.39	-£6.46M	£0.94	1,342.52
HICL Infrastructure	£49.90M	46.97	£101.36M	£0.02	5,234.78

Is STJ or HICL a better dividend stock?

St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. St. James's Place pays out 19.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HICL Infrastructure pays out 358.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Is STJ or HICL more profitable?

HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 96.27% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.02%. HICL Infrastructure's return on equity of 3.24% beat St. James' Place's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
St. James's Place	-0.02%	-0.63%	0.22%
HICL Infrastructure	96.27%	3.24%	0.58%

Which has more risk & volatility, STJ or HICL?

St. James's Place has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in STJ or HICL?

77.8% of St. James's Place shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.1% of HICL Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of St. James's Place shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of HICL Infrastructure shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts rate STJ or HICL?

St. James's Place presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,485, suggesting a potential upside of 17.30%. Given St. James' Place's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than HICL Infrastructure.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
St. James's Place	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80
HICL Infrastructure	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the media prefer STJ or HICL?

In the previous week, St. James's Place had 1 more articles in the media than HICL Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for St. James's Place and 1 mentions for HICL Infrastructure. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat St. James' Place's score of 0.85 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
St. James's Place	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
HICL Infrastructure	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

St. James's Place beats HICL Infrastructure on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.